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Cottage Catering in Elmwood hosts first fund-raising King Cake Festival on Saturday

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Cottage Catering will sell for the charities traditional king cakes, decorated with black and gold or purple, green and gold, for $16.95. Customers will receive a token with their king cake purchase, which they will assign to the charity they wish to support.

The festival, outdoors in front of 1536 River Oaks Road W., in Elmwood, will have sweet and savory king cakes, free food and drink samples, games, a doubloon scramble with a cash prize, rope braiding (as king cakes are formed), a DJ, dance performances, face painting and more.

Spokesperson Traci Howerton said the bakery will sell for the charities traditional king cakes, decorated with black and gold or purple, green and gold, for $16.95. Customers will receive a token with their king cake purchase, which they will assign to the charity they wish to support. The organizations will split the proceeds from the king cake sales accordingly.

The bakery will sell $2 slices of savory and sweet king cakes. Two savory flavors have no sugar or icing, including a new flavor, muffuleta, and crawfish (pictured above), both with fillings baked inside the dough.

Howerton said all three organizations will have representatives at the festival, and the no-kill shelter Animal Rescue New Orleans will bring adoptable dogs. The Harahan Fire Department and a ladder truck will represent the national Fallen Fire Fighters. She said Team Gleason's representative is not expected to be Steve Gleason, the beloved ex-Saints player stricken with ALS. His charity raises funds to find a cure.

In addition, the bakery will sell $2 slices of savory and sweet king cakes. Two savory flavors have no sugar or icing, including a new flavor, muffuleta, and crawfish, both with fillings baked inside the dough.

Sweet slices for sale will include maple bacon pecan and three to-be-determined surprise flavors. The bakery also will sell bowls of crawfish pasta ($4), sodas and water, and will give away free samples of Cottage Catering's roasted corn grits, king cake coffee and king cake vodka. A raffle will be held for a $500 gift card for catering.

"They're expecting to sell out, so come early," Howerton advised.

In a press release, chef and owner John Caluda of Cottage Catering and Bakery said, "We are hoping to turn King's Day into an annual festival that supports local charities."